This promising pill developed at hashtag CityofHope worked on 70 different cancer cell lines! Capacity to kill ALL solid tumors? Vast implications. How many years before ever reaching patients, if ever? hashtag healthspanactioncoalition
By Caitlin Tilley – Daily Mail
Scientists have developed a holy grail cancer drug that kills all solid cancer tumors while leaving other cells unharmed.
The new molecule targets a protein present in most cancers that helps tumors grow and multiply in the body.
It is significant because this protein – the proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) – was previously thought to be ‘undruggable’.
The drug was tested on 70 different cancer cells in the lab – including those derived from breast, prostate, brain, ovarian, cervical, skin, and lung cancer – and was effective against them all.
